Southern Africa Gender Budgeting NetWork
SAGBN
Mauritius Council of Social Service
Paper presented by Ms Rita Ramdin – representative of MACOSS - Mauritius
Gender Budgeting In Mauritius
The Mauritius Council of Social Service was founded in 1965. The Council was then incorporated under Act 55 of 1970, voted in Parliament providing thus the legal framework of the Council. MACOSS is governed by an elected Executive Committee of 25 members and has today a membership of 250 Member Affiliates and out of which 50 works for the “Gender Empowerment and Mainstreaming”. The Secretariat is comprised of seven full time staff. Over the years, the Council has developed into an umbrella organisation for NGOs in Mauritius, becoming the focal point of the sector, and has also develop strong working relations with various local and International bodies as well as the Government of Mauritius.
The Commitment of the Government of Mauritius to adopting a Gendered approach in the handling of economical, social, cultural and political issues dates back to the 1994 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing with the formal undertaking to implement the resolution emanating from the conference. This approach was enshrined in the 1995 White Paper on Women in Development. It was made more explicit with the publication of the National Gender Action Plan in March 2000.The Ministry of Women’s Rights organised a consultative workshop on Engendering the Budget. The outcome was to established a Consultative Group, make up of representatives from the private sector, non-governmental organisation(NGOS), academics and senior technical official for ministries and other government departments. The agenda of the consultative Group was to :
RGBN Reports 2010
>Survey Report On The Use Of Related Knowledge Products by Partners In Southern Africa
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has a long history of working on gender and women’s rights around the world. According to a UNIFEM brief in Budlender (2009) , the organisation places the advancement of women’s human rights at the core of its work, and endeavours to reduce feminised poverty; end violence against women; reverse the spread of HIV and AIDS among women and girls; and achieve gender equality in democratic governance at all times. It does this through a number of activities including the production of knowledge materials for use by its partners and interested individuals. This report results from a survey of “usage of UNIFEM knowledge products in southern Africa”.
Regional Gender Budgeting Network Profiles
RGBN Profiles
Loveness Timbira is an Economist in the Expenditure Department of the Ministry of Finance, Government of Zimbabwe. She is responsible for the formulation and management of the National Budget. She is the alternate gender focal person in the Ministry of Finance. She is a holder a Bachelors Degree in Economics. She is an expert in public finance management.
Egnes Nhengo is a gender budgeting and gender mainstreaming programme officer in the Ministry of Women Affairs and Community Development in Zimbabwe. She is a holder of a Bsc Honours Degree in Sociology and a Masters Degree in development studies. She is an expert in gender mainstreaming, gender budgeting , human rights of women and children, sexual reproductive rights and HIV/AIDS, policy analysis and planning, strategic planning, project management and gender advocacy.
2nd Annual Southern Africa Regional Gender Budgeting Network Meeting
2nd Annual Southern Africa Regional Gender Budgeting Network Meeting
Cedar Park Hotel-Johannesburg,South Africa.
Background
The Southern African Region Gender Budgeting Network was formed in June 2009 and had its 1st Annual Meeting at the same event to constitute the vision and mission of the network. On 5 August 2010, the 2nd Annual Meeting was held as documented below:
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Regional Gender Budgeting Training
Gender Budgeting Training
1. ZWRCN produces a pool of Regional GB trainers
A Regional Gender Budgeting Training of Trainers Workshop was held for 27 representatives of government and civil society from 8 countries in the region with support from UNIFEM SARO.
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